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Movie Review: ’13 Slays Till X-Mas’ Is The Only Holiday Horror Film You Need

It’s that time of year again, time to celebrate Christmas the best way horror fans can, with a bloody good holiday horror-themed movie. Let’s be honest, there are a ton of Christmas horror movies out there, but there’s a new movie that you should be watching, Blood Moon Picture’s 13 Slays Till-Xmas, the only horror anthology you need this season. The film is from writer-producer P.J. Starks, the creator of Volumes of Blood, and producer Eric Huskisson (The Confession of Fred Krueger, VOB: Horror Stories). HorrorFuel’s Kelli Marchman McNeely executive produced. It features thirteen Christmas themed stories of merry mayhem connected by a wrap-around. The massive anthology is set on December 24th, Christmas Eve, with five seemingly random men who are invited to a dive bar by a mysterious e-mail. They decide to pass the time by resurrecting the old tradition of telling scary stories on Christmas Eve. As each takes turns spinning yarns of yuletide terror it becomes evident,

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Ella Rebecca Horton

Dec 26, 2020

Holiday HorrorMoviesNewsShudderStreaming TVTrailers

Shudder Gifting Subscribers With ‘A Creepshow Holiday Special’

Shudder, the streaming service for all your horror needs is giving fans a real treat just in time for Christmas, A Creepshow Holiday Special! Starring Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect) and Adam Pally (“The Mindy Project”) the holiday horror special about a killer on the loose is directed by none other than Greg Nicotero (“Creepshow”, “The Walking Dead”). Put on your jammies, pour a cup of hot chocolate, and settle in under the covers to watch A Creepshow Holiday Special, debuting exclusively on Shudder on Friday, December 18, 2020, at 12:01 am ET/9:01 pm PT. Sign up now for a free seven-day trial.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 12, 2020

Holiday HorrorMoviesNews

Killer Gifts Ideas For Horror Fans

There’s still plenty of time for last-minute Christmas Shopping. Let’s be honest, horror fans can be kind of hard to shop for. No worries, HorrorFuel.com is here to help! We’ve got a list of 10 awesome and not so common gifts from around the internet for those genre fans in your life that are guaranteed to please. For Full Moon fans: The ultimate one-stop-shop for everything Full Moon is the company’s own site where you can snag everything from Blu-rays to collectibles replicas and figures to gift sets and even masks. For fans of the classics: You don’t get much more classic than the Universal Monsters. Even today these creatures continue to inspire fans and filmmakers alike. For collectors, the NECA Universal Monster Mask collection is a must-have. They are sold both together and separately. You can order them here. Looking for a stocking stuffer? Head to Wal-Mart and grab a couple of Universal Monster Mini Funko or buy the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 11, 2020

Holiday HorrorMoviesNewsTrailers

A Killer Stalks The Trailer For ‘The Nights Before Christmas’

The holiday season is here. Christmas is coming and holiday-themed horror films are beginning to be released, including director Paul Tanter’s The Nights Before Christmas. “In the run-up to Christmas, a murderous Santa and Mrs. Claus rampage their way through a series of gruesome killings. FBI Special Agent Natalie Parker is tasked with tracking the pair of psychotic serial killers and discovering what links their victims. With the body count rising, she discovers the couple met in and escaped from an asylum for the criminally insane. As Christmas day nears, the psychotic couple slaughters their way through their special naughty list, playing a cat and mouse game with the FBI and leaving a trail of gruesome bloody bodies in their wake.” Simon Phillips, Sayla De Goede, Kate Schroder, Keegan Chambers, and Anne-Carolyn Binnette star. It’s been described as “fantastic,” “gory, brutal and nasty” and “a fun holiday horror gift” by horror festival-goers who also said, “Santa and Mrs. Claus are

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 30, 2020

MoviesNewsStreaming TVTrailers

Arrow Video Announces December Lineup For Streaming Service

Arrow Video has just announced their December lineup of new releases on their streaming service that features cult classics, hidden gems, and iconic horror films. Beginning December 1st with the debut of The Bloodhound, a hauntingly atmospheric tale from first-time feature director Patrick Picard, starring Liam Aiken (A Series of Unfortunate Events), Joe Adler (The Maze Runner), and Annalise Basso (Ouija: Origin of Evil). The seasons kick off with Naughty or Nice, featuring tearaway teens and maniacal killers, the worst of Santa’s naughty list: The Violent Years, Bloody Birthday, Children of the Corn, The El Duce Tapes, Doom Asylum, and The Hooked Generation. December 1st then brings some festive fear and cheer with Jalmari Helander’s Finnish holiday gem Rare Exports. Lastly, December 1st will include Survivor Ballads: Three Films by Shohei Imamura (Black Rain, The Ballad of Narayama and Zegen), exclusively on ARROW. The temperature drops and the body count rises on December 7th with the It’s Cold Outside lineup,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 28, 2020

News

The Ghosts of Christmas Bingo Scratchcard Pays Homage to Horror in Christmas Movies

The online bingo industry is doing its utmost to attract as vast a range of players as possible, and one of the most recent ways that sites have done this is through the introduction of scratch cards. These instant win games come in many different themes, and some would definitely appeal to fans of horror. Indeed, a new Christmas horror-themed scratch card serves as a wonderful reminder of the link between horror and the December holiday. Game Will Appeal to Horror Fans Horror fans looking for a chance to win instantly online will be delighted to see that among the many scratchcards on the internet there is a spooky Christmas offering. The Ghosts of Christmas Scratchcard is a festive instant win game at Paddy Power that also has a haunting element. It pays homage to the 1843 Charles Dickens novel, A Christmas Carol, but also serves as a tribute to the strong relationship between Christmas and horror themes. Is Gremlins

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Ella Rebecca Horton

Nov 19, 2020

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Ring In The Holidays With Shudder’s Movies, Specials, And More

Shudder is wrapping up a record-breaking year with holiday specials from two of our most popular series, exclusive new supernatural chillers, massive new collections focused on holiday horrors and Giallo, and so much more. NEW SHUDDER SPECIALS JOE BOB SAVES CHRISTMAS — December 11 at 9 pm ET The Christmas spirit takes over The Last Drive-In as Joe Bob and Darcy close out the year with a double feature of holiday horrors. Premieres live on the ShudderTV feed Friday, December 11, and will be made available on-demand on Sunday, December 13. (Also available on Shudder Canada) A CREEPSHOW HOLIDAY SPECIAL — December 18 In the holiday-themed, hour-long episode, “Shapeshifters Anonymous,” fearing he is a murderer, an anxious man searches for answers for his “unique condition” from an unusual support group. Starring Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect) and Adam Pally (The Mindy Project), the special is written and directed by Creepshow showrunner Greg Nicotero, based on a short story by J.A. Konrath

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 10, 2020

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This Christmas Cute But Deadly ‘Creatures’ Invade Earth

Post-production has been completed on Creatures, the new movie from Tony Jopia, the director that brought you Cute Little Buggers and Crying Wolf, the executive producer of The Hive, and the creator of Good Tidings. In the movie, “a group of astronomy students gets more than they bargained for after finding an injured alien who is being targeted by a group of bloodthirsty alien creatures.” Jopia Productions and Creatures Media LLC aimed to create a Christmas themed creature feature that could sit alongside such classic movies as Night of the Creeps, Critters, Dead Heat, Ghoulies, They Live, and Gremlins. Our passion lies in melding practical and visual FX. We aim to deliver on the goods by bringing together some creatively nasty SFX, tremendous puppet creature work, and VFX work that will blow fans of action, horror-comedies truly away.“ Director Tony Jopia says. “Creatures’ will definitely be delivering a Red Christmas this year! We’re super excited to be making our biggest

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Sep 28, 2020

BooksHoliday HorrorNews

New Christmas Horror Book Returns to ’80s Horror

Billed as a mix between The Shining and Office Space, upcoming holiday-horror novel Secret Santa promises a return t the horror boom of the ’80s. After half a decade editing some of the biggest names in horror, Lussi Meyer joins prestigious Blackwood-Patterson to kickstart its new horror imprint. Her co-workers seem less than thrilled. Ever since the illustrious Xavier Blackwood died and his party-boy son took over, things have been changing around the office. When Lussi receives a creepy gnome doll as part of the company’s annual holiday gift exchange, it verifies what she’s long suspected: her colleagues think she’s a joke. No one takes her seriously, even if she’s the one whose books are keeping the company afloat. What happens after the doll’s arrival is no joke. With no explana- tion, Lussi’s co-workers begin to drop like flies. A heart attack here; a food poisoning there. One of her authors and closest friends, the fabulous but underrated Fabien Nightingale,

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Capt McNeely

Jul 1, 2020

Holiday Horror

Yule Lads: Iceland’s Christmas Troublemakers

Yeah, it’s that time of year where that creepy little fecker “The Elf on the Shelf” is everywhere. This little jerk who looks at you judgingly as he moves every night to a new spot in your house to scare the kids into behaving. I think it’s time to bring in some new blood to keep the kids in line. Bring in the Yule Lads! You may have already heard of these guys as they made an appearance on the “Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina” Christmas special a few days ago.The Yule Lads or Yulemen, are Icelandic troublemakers who visit children for 13 nights leading up to Christmas. In total there are 13 Yule Lads and according to the stories from Iceland, they’re all sons to the fearsome giantess Grýla who comes from the mountains around Christmas time and takes away bad children and cooks them into a stew. Grýla is also a cat person as she has a giant black

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Capt McNeely

Dec 18, 2018

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